When was the point when you accepted your child had a drug or alcohol problem?

by hopeacademyrhs / Uncategorized / No Comments / July 31, 2019

Part 5 of the series, What Parents Need to Know: “Hope Academy Parents Share Their Experiences” “Once we had our eyes open to it. Saying that we “accepted” it would be too generous. We fought it,

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Did you try to manage your child’s alcohol and drug use on your own? What did you try? What worked?

by hopeacademyrhs / Uncategorized / No Comments / July 31, 2019

Part 4 of the series, What Parents Need to Know: “Hope Academy Parents Share Their Experiences” “She did three months in rehab out of state. She came home and three months later she relapsed.” “We

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What happened next after you found out your child was using?

by hopeacademyrhs / Uncategorized / No Comments / July 31, 2019

Part 3 of the series, What Parents Need to Know: “Hope Academy Parents Share Their Experiences” “It was clear at some point that she was at least using marijuana. I suspected alcohol as well but

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What Did You Feel About Your Suspicions?

by hopeacademyrhs / Uncategorized / No Comments / July 31, 2019

Part 2 of the series, What Parents Need to Know: “Hope Academy Parents Share Their Experiences” “We thought that she mainly had issues with anxiety.” “We were concerned but had no idea what to do

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When did you first suspect that your child was using drugs and/or alcohol? What tipped you off?

by hopeacademyrhs / Uncategorized / No Comments / July 31, 2019

Part 1 of the series, What Parents Need to Know: “Hope Academy Parents Share Their Experiences” “Her personality started to change. She had been a fun loving, smiling, logical thinking teenager. She turned into

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Teen Alcohol and Drug Use: What a Parent Needs to Know

by hopeacademyrhs / Uncategorized / No Comments / July 31, 2019

Alcohol and drug use among teens is not a new phenomenon. It is also a circumstance that shakes parents to their core with fear, and with good reason. Have you ever wondered what you would

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Three ways to help your child regain their self-confidence

by justin / Uncategorized / No Comments / March 11, 2019

What I hear so often is that our teens and young adults lack confidence in themselves.  The dictionary defines confidence as having a feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities. Some

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2019 Taste of Hope fundraiser celebrates students in recovery

by justin / Uncategorized / No Comments / March 4, 2019

Hope Academy celebrated another record-breaking Taste of Hope event this year by raising over $70,000 to support students in recovery from substance abuse. The annual fundraiser, held on Feb. 24 in the Fairbanks Recovery Center, included

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Taste of Hope fundraiser featured on FOX59 News

by justin / Uncategorized / No Comments / February 14, 2019

Hope Academy Chief Operations Officer Rachelle Gardner and Sarah, a Hope Academy senior, were featured live on FOX59’s morning newscast on Feb. 14 to discuss the 2019 Taste of Hope fundraiser. The interview included food that

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Nine things parents usually get wrong about their teen’s alcohol/drug use

by justin / Uncategorized / No Comments / February 12, 2019

Teens face pressure to engage in substance use in a culture where alcohol and marijuana use is more prevalent than ever, and access to intoxicating drugs is as close as the family medicine cabinet. Stigma

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